Sweet! I adjusted my attributes. Can you give an example of what you're expecting for starting items? One or two handed? Cool down and activation times? Weight considerations? Max range? Any mechanism to interrupt another's action? Skill/spell/weapon chaining?

In this thread, there are strong suggestions that a species will almost always know violence, because in no reality would there be a scarcity of resources to precipitate conflict, and so any spacefaring race that we encounter would more than likely be capable of combat. And a completely cooperative ...

gmalivuk wrote:If you think it's not inevitable that other species will be subject to the same physical laws we are, then this thread should have been posted in a fantasy forum, not a (fictional) science forum.

Jesus, dude. Last time I checked, fiction was not fact. You're souring my mood here...

I'm gonna be that guy and say that whatever we think is inevitable for the evolution of a species will be completely shatter by what we might be presented with if/when "they" arrive, supposing that we do share the universe with others

The asshole gene is persistent among our "best and brightest", too. That's what makes Thesh's assumption so extraordinary. The one species we know about with any spaceflight capabilities is full of assholes, but we're supposed to believe there's no chance that will still be the case when ...

Going at this from the other side, imagine we were the interstellar culture and we send such a test drone into an inhabited system. How should we react if it gets shot down immediately? Should we retreat and leave them to their own devices, or should we go in and sterilize the system as a precautio...

You have no data on the visitors or their motivations. All you have is that they are in some location where we can see them and they aren't us. You may be able to determine a mass for the vessel. Maybe their method of propulsion in normal space, a size, and their orbit I suppose. Certainly almost e...

Our "bloodlust" provides some pretty obvious evolutionary advantages... For us, of course. It's foolish to assume this path would be followed by another intelligent lifeform, imo. Uh no, not just for us, for any species that competes over limited resources... You're still assuming... You ...

Hmm, how likely would that be? I think it would require either no scarcity, a single entity or no self-preservation –implying a method of evolution unlike we know. I'd say it'd be extremely likely that they don't share our bloodlust, but Hollywood makes money off of conflict, so it's hard to imagin...

Depends on where they park doesn't it. But having said that, first out of the gate we should consider that either one of two things has happened. Someone has crossed stellar distances in normal space to come a calling, or they have somehow traveled fasten than light flight. Either of those situatio...

If extraterrestrial beings came upon our planet, intentions ambiguous, still parked in space... how should the powers handle it? How should the media handle it? How should the people react? What do we do!

I never understood how the spread is really supposed to work: The Z's hunger for yummy human flesh, don't they? So if a horde of them catch a human, they'll eat them, or a good portion at least. The rest of that unlucky individual may turn undead, but won't have enough of itself left to shamble the...

It has prior art! One of the original "<period of time> Of The Dead" films (Night? I'd have to look it up, I tend to get mixed up between the later ones, that blur a bit in my recollection...) had zombies 'crossing' the Hudson into New York or perhaps the Potomac into DC or... (...more bl...

Hey, a giant Eve thread that's gone undisturbed for over half a year! Well, Eve consumed my free time for a good seven damned years. I was enamored by the vastness and freedom. The parallels to human society in trade, "honor", strategies, geopolitics, and history, all contribute to an imme...